It’s a month to celebrate on various occasions and I want to celebrate them with all of you. This month was the special time when I saw the first sunlight, this month was the special month when my blog www.kunal-chowdhury.com was first launched. Not only those, we reached a special milestone of 2 million hits with 2,500+ Twitter followers and 3,500+ Facebook fans.

As we are approaching the 5th anniversary with a long journey all together since 2008, I want to celebrate it with lots of excitements and thus came up with a set of goodies/licenses especially for you. Let’s take part in this giveaway and win those goodies from us.

What you can win:

There are already a long list of goodies as part of this giveaway celebration and I am still looking for more goodies to include here. Have a look into this list (total prize money valued: $ 50,519) to find out the new entries as and when they are included:

Five licenses of Syncfusion Essential Studio Platform worth $995 each (what’s new)
(The license is not the full suite of Essential Studio but a platform of your choice. Winners will get a chance to select license for any one of the following platforms: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Mobile MVC, Silverlight, Windows Forms, Windows Phone, WPF, WinRT XAML)

Steps to win

Every contest has it’s own rules and steps to follow before declaring the winner. Thus this one too. This campaign will run from 19th September 2013 to 6th October 2013 and the result will announced on Facebook, Twitter and this site on 10th October 2013. Just follow the few simple steps mentioned below and you are good to go to enter into it:

First you need to register to this giveaway by providing your valid email address and occupation details. This step is mandatory and the other entries will be void if you don’t register. We will keep your email address confidential and will not share with any body.

Become a fan of our Facebook page by clicking the “Like us on Facebook” button above, if you are not already. This is very important step as we are going to announce the winner in our Facebook page.

Spread about this campaign in social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. with the hashtag “#kcgiveaway” and a mention to “@kunal2383”. We will keep track of the tweets and Facebook updates which makes more value to get entitled in this contest. So keep spreading daily to gain "5 points" for each tweet, but don't act like a spammer. Here is a text which you can use:

Drop a line below mentioning why you like “www.kunal-chowdhury.com” and if you have any feedback for us.

Terms and Conditions

We reserve the rights to Modify/Cancel the Giveaway with/without any prior notice. This included the prizes too.

We reserve the rights to cancel any entry and/or restrict a person from the giveaway without any notice.

This giveaway contest will run for a month from 19th September 2013 to 6th October 2013. No entries will be eligible after that period.

We reserve the rights to reduce or extend the period of this giveaway with/without any prior notice.

At the end of the period, random winner will be selected for each prize category and the decision will be final.

We will announce the winners list in this blog, Twitter and Facebook. So, keep following us.

The winner should respond to the email/DM within 7 days after we declare the winners, failing which the prize will be transferred to other contestants.

Spamming is strictly prohibited and hence we will remove spamming entries without any notice.

The Giveaway is open to all geographic locations.

If you have come this far, it means that you liked what you are reading. Why not reach little more and connect with me directly on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions on my articles directly. Also, don't forget to share your views and/or feedback in the comment section below.

Firstly, Thank You very much for your active role in the Community with your blog. Sharing invaluable information with the communities in all corners of the world, using your valuable resources for the community.

Its Time for the community to say Thank You for everything. Hoping to see another active 5 years of your active role in the community.

May Almighty God bless you and give you strength to continue with your active role...

Happy 5th Anniversary Kunal. Wish you all the very best. There are lots of valuable technical articles in your blog where you have explained stuff really well. Your explanations are easy to understand. That's why I am fan of http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/

Hi Kunal, I am a follower of your blog and twitter. The work you have been doing is incomparable. Thank you..Congratulations on this anniversary...All the best for rest of your life as a blogger and as a good human being..may god bless you...:-)

About Me

Kunal Chowdhury is a Windows Platform Development MVP of Microsoft, a Telerik MVP, Nokia Developer Champion, Speaker in various Microsoft events, Author, passionate Blogger and a Software Engineer by profession.